Background

Mr. Peter M. Castleman is the Co-Founder at Westwind Investors, LP. Mr. Castleman co-founded the firm in late 2006. He has been focused on building Westwind’s direct private equity investment activities since early 2010. Mr. Castleman is the Consultant, Chairman and Managing Director at J.H. Whitney & Co., LLC. He served as the Managing Partner for Whitney for almost twenty years where he produced five top quartile performance middle market buyout funds producing net ... returns to investors of over 25 percent. Mr. Castleman joined J.H. Whitney in 1987. He is also a Principal at JHW Greentree Capital, L.P. Mr. Castleman was employed at Morgan Stanley & Co., in the Leveraged Buyout Group as an investment professional. He started his career as an Officer at J.P. Morgan & Co. Incorporated. Mr. Castleman was a Teaching Fellow in Economics at Harvard University. He served as Chairman of Herbalife Ltd. until May 2007 and Director from 2002 to May 2007 and served as its Presiding Director. Mr. Castleman serves as the Chairman of United Biosource Corporation. He serves as a Director of Herbalife International, Inc. Mr. Castleman also serves as a Member of the Board of Directors of Caris Life Sciences, Inc., Aramiska, B.V. and EMC Holdings, LLC. He served as Chairman of the Board of WH Intermediate Holdings Ltd. since 2002. Mr. Castleman served as Chairman of Herbalife International of America, Inc. He served as a Director of HEI Exchange, Inc. Mr. Castleman served as Member of the Board of Directors of Healthmarket Inc. He served as a Director of The North Face, Inc.; Advance Paradigm; Eon Labs Inc.; and Pharmanex, Inc. Mr. Castleman was runner up for the Economic prize for his work on the Economics of Solar Energy. He received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar and a B.A. degree from Duke where he graduated Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa and honors in Economics. Mr. Castleman also studied at New College, Oxford University.

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